Dry as a Bone, Part 2

[ksbearski]

Mr. Red Devil-

Thanks for the courtesy of a reply. I recognize that Mr. Steel God and yourself have to protect the interests of this club and therefore I can appreciate your desire to keep things private. However, perhaps you can clear up a few things for us simple, lowly members.

After an extended absence, Mr. Blitzcanuck made his reappearance and in 8 posts managed to get himself banned. I saw the posts and am interested in knowing which one contained the straw that brole the camel's back, as I would not want to suffer the same fate as Canuck and it might benefit the membership to know the type of post that could get us all banned.

You allude in your response to me that there were other issues as well. Can we deduce from your response that Canuck conducted himself in a not so stellar manner in PRIVATE? I was under the impression that the club ROE's pertained to public posting and public behavior on the MB's, as well as the intricacies of reporting games, the ladder rules, etc., so am I mis-reading the rules of engagement section, specifically rules 5 and 20, in that they only pertain to PUBLIC posting? I am not so niave to think that someone should not be banned if they privately threaten some club officer with physical violence or say, for example, threaten to do harm to the club website, but I would think that if someone privately disagreed with a MOD, perhaps in a rude manner, that surely wouldn't be enough to get someone banned...or would it?

But let's say the rules of engagement for the club govern public behavior, then to ban someone for non-threatening private behavior wouldn't fall under the established conventions as we all understand them and adhere to, would it? However, if the rules of engagement do govern private communications, then they wouldn't be private, as my understanding of the club structure is that there are only two or three people that can outright ban a member, and in order for a member to be banned based on the contents of a private message, then by definition the message wouldn't be private, it would be "shared", if it was used to ban someone, would it not?

I hope you are not offended by my questions, I am just trying to gain some insight as to how this whole banning thing operates. As Steel God pointed out, there's only been four persons banned in the history of the club, so it is a fairly traumatic event and I for one would say that if someone got banned, it would be helpful to know the reason so that the rest of us would have some guidance as to what's acceptable and what is not.

I can not express my appreciation adequately for the hard work that you and the other Blitz mods and officers put in to make this site and club go.

Regards,

ksbearski